I'll be honest from start and say I have a bias toward playing good and occasionally neutral, PC's because I can't make myself be very evil. I'm just not that mean.

Some of the recent characters on the Battlefield have made me question the balance between good and evil in character strength, particularly PK's. If you look at 3 recent evils, Nuloh, Isabeaux and Kanaev, they account for nearly 700 pks between them and less than 100 deaths. Sorry I didn't add up the numbers, too lazy. When you look at the next 5 easily identifiable good characters, they account for maybe 100 pks and about 200 deaths. Is this just the recent tide or a more pervasive trend?

I realize that from a role-play perspective it's much easier to justify rampant killing by evils and to a certain degree this will attract a segment of the player population simply because of this. And certainly several of the most memorable pk'ers have been evil over the years. I'm just wondering about this from a game balance perspective.

Should evil be that much stronger than good? Is it just playing style that results in numbers like this or is it an imbalance in class skills? I'm guessing the Immortal staff has conversations about this fairly frequently but I'm wondering if there's a predilection towards evil characters among them as well and hence a bias in the game towards making evil a bit easier to get strong PC's with.

Just a philosophical question by the usual suspect.